Improvement in names-fastenings



attachment for the same.

Cdtiill int5 Leners Patent No. 110,848, date Jm'my 10,1811; antenna January 6,1871.

lmPnovsMEN'T' In HAMEs-fss'rl-:Nmcs

The Schedule referred to than Letten Patent and mking paxt of the same.

To all whom tmay concern Be it known that I, HUGH B. GRUMLLNG, oiGi-ant, county of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a. new and usei'ul Improvement in` Hames und I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the alt to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying dra\v. .ing forming part of'this, specification.

Figure l represents a front view, partly in section, of my improved hame;

- Figure 2 is a. perspective view of. a. harness-hook Figure' is a detail perspective view of a separate hook for the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. c

lhis invention relates to a new device for locking the lower ends of hames together and to the collar,

for the same.

The invention consists,1'st, in the use of a piroted loop, A, and spring lever B, which are, respectively,

' and also to a novel adjustable draft-hook 'attachment -pivoted to the lower ends of the haines 0C, as'shown.

The lever B has two or more projecting hooks, a a, ln either one of which the loop can be looked to regu- .late thereby'the width ofthe coller.

A spring, b, acts against one end of the lever to holdthe same closed..

Theinvention consists also in scouring the drafthook D to the fac-es of the humes. and in bending them backward, and in join'ting them. toreach the traces.

'.lhe'se hooks `have slotted shzinks ll d,\vhicl1 are, by Y menus of screws orholts e, secured to the llames. The slots permit the hooks to he adjusted vertically..

' Fig. 1 represents the draft-hooks adapted tbr henry work,I and runde rigid throughout.

Fig. 2 shows a jointed lhook for c'zul'iagelial'lless, c -with a buckle, f, at the end to secure it to the traces.

Fig. 3 shows the Outerarm of a jointed hook, whose end is to be riveted to the traces. I l I By making the draft-hook adjustable, as described, and pull from the front, a proper center draft, which dqesnotvweary the horses, is provided.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as ne'w and desire to secure by Letters Patent- I f 1. The arrangement, with respect to the linmes C C and lever B, of the rigid loop A, transversely pivoted and embracing `the front and back faces ot' both llames, as and for the purposes described.

2. A tracehook,1), having n. slotted shank-plate, l,adj'usted up and down by screw and nut, ns and for the .purpose described.

^ HUGH'B. GRUMLING.' Vi/itr'lesses:- 'Y

o HENRY Snnnmo,

'(lnns. K. KING.

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